1Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.[ † ]Revelation 5:6Revelation 7:4Revelation 14:3Ezekiel 9:4Revelation 7:3Revelation 22:4 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.[ † ]Revelation 1:15Revelation 19:6Revelation 5:8
3And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.[ † ]Revelation 5:9 4These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.[ † ]Matthew 19:122 Corinthians 11:2Ephesians 5:27Revelation 3:4Revelation 7:17Revelation 5:9Hebrews 12:23James 1:18 5And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.[ † ]Psalms 32:2Zephaniah 3:13Malachi 2:6John 1:471 Peter 2:22Ephesians 5:27
6Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.[ † ]Revelation 8:13Ephesians 3:9Revelation 13:7 7And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”[ † ]Revelation 11:18Nehemiah 9:6
8Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”[ † ]Isaiah 21:9Jeremiah 51:8Revelation 18:2Jeremiah 51:7Revelation 17:2
9And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand,[ † ]Revelation 13:14-15Revelation 14:11Revelation 13:16 10he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.[ † ]Psalms 75:8Revelation 18:6Revelation 16:19Revelation 20:10Genesis 19:24Ezekiel 38:222 Thessalonians 1:7Revelation 19:20 11And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”[ † ]Isaiah 34:8-10Revelation 18:9-18Revelation 19:3
12Here is a call for the perseverance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.[ † ]Revelation 13:10Revelation 12:17
13And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”[ † ]Ecclesiastes 4:1-21 Corinthians 15:181 Thessalonians 4:162 Thessalonians 1:7Hebrews 4:9-10Revelation 6:111 Corinthians 3:11-151 Corinthians 15:58
14And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
15Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth is ripe.”[ † ]Revelation 16:17Joel 3:13Mark 4:29Revelation 14:18Jeremiah 51:33Matthew 13:39-41 16So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”[ † ]Revelation 16:8Joel 3:13Mark 4:29Revelation 14:15
19So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.[ † ]Isaiah 63:2Revelation 19:15 20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.[ † ]Isaiah 63:3Lamentations 1:15Revelation 19:15Hebrews 13:12Revelation 11:8Isaiah 34:3